Usual complaint about weight not going down

Cammy_girl
Cammy_girl Posts: 115 Member
edited November 16 in Health and Weight Loss
Reasonably long rant/vent/plea for hell ahead...

I have been back on the wagon, so to speak , for 3ish weeks. In this time I've had 2 biggish nights of drinking and following day of eating more than usual. Even then I ate at, or close to maintenance.
Otherwise I am eating an average of 1500 calories a day, and working out most days.
I weigh breakfast and lunch. Not so much with dinner as I don't usually cook, but i know quantities of ingredients and average it out over how many serves a meal makes.

In the past these actions have meant I drop 1 -2 KG a week (I have 40+KG to lose so I don't think this loss is excessive). I have lost almost 30kg to date, but have stalled for almost 6 months (mainly due to inconsistent eating and exercise)

This time however, my weight has not budged at all, if anything has crept up 1/2kg.

My diary is open, so suggestions are welcome.
I am definitely more active than I have been, and more consistent with eating better and moving more, so am getting pretty frustrated.

I have been feeling more energetic and alert, at times almost manic like.

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  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    The biggish nights w/ drinking can have an impact. If your calorie are in check not a concern for the long haul, but it can mean additional mass in your body til the food processes out.

    Things you can do:
    Improve your logging accuracy. Try to have fewer 'biggish' nights. Take more control over dinner - if you're not cooking, do you have true knowledge of the ingredients/quantities that are going into the meals?
  • not_a_runner
    not_a_runner Posts: 1,343 Member
    Did you log everything on the drinking nights and days following to know they were close to maintenence? A day like that each week can be enough for me to eat back most of my weekly deficit. :/
    I saw a few entires I questioned, such as Pizza Hut - Hot N Spicy Pepperoni, 1 slice for 175 calories.
    Is that 1 slice of regular pizza? The calories seem very off if that is the case. Maybe you're under estimating some of the meals you aren't cooking.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    I see a lot of what looks like user-created entries in your diary. These may have green check marks, but that just means enough people erroneously confirmed them as being right. For two I checked, chicken and bananas, entries that matched the USDA database syntax had more calories than the entries you checked. Now, these were small amounts, 5 and 8 calories, but it's possible you have entries that are more wrong and so you are eating more than you think.

    I get the syntax for whole foods from the USDA Database and plug this into MFP to find a system entry.

    The following observations may reflect my own personal preferences: how sure are you about the 50 grams of raw chicken for dinner today? Seems like a small amount. And were you overestimating with the penne? 120 grams of raw pasta would be a very large amount for me. (But not so much for my OH.)
  • lizandjohn23
    lizandjohn23 Posts: 1 Member
    What am i doing wrong? I am eating between 1,000-1,200 calories a day. my typical day would be for breakfast -2 pickled eggs, 1 slice of ezekiel bread , 1 tablespoon of butter. for lunch- a smoothie with 1 cup of nonfat plain greek yogurt,2 tablespoons of flaxseed,1 cup of blueberries, 1 cucumber,1 med carrot,cauliflower,kale,spinach and wheatgrass. for dinner-2 pickled eggs. snack 1/4 cup raw almonds. the scale is not moving, what should i change?
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    edited March 2017
    Cammy_girl wrote: »
    Reasonably long rant/vent/plea for hell ahead...

    I have been back on the wagon, so to speak , for 3ish weeks. In this time I've had 2 biggish nights of drinking and following day of eating more than usual. Even then I ate at, or close to maintenance.
    Otherwise I am eating an average of 1500 calories a day, and working out most days.
    I weigh breakfast and lunch. Not so much with dinner as I don't usually cook, but i know quantities of ingredients and average it out over how many serves a meal makes.

    In the past these actions have meant I drop 1 -2 KG a week (I have 40+KG to lose so I don't think this loss is excessive). I have lost almost 30kg to date, but have stalled for almost 6 months (mainly due to inconsistent eating and exercise)

    This time however, my weight has not budged at all, if anything has crept up 1/2kg.

    My diary is open, so suggestions are welcome.
    I am definitely more active than I have been, and more consistent with eating better and moving more, so am getting pretty frustrated.

    I have been feeling more energetic and alert, at times almost manic like.

    You said your issues yourself


    StaciMarie1974 wrote: »
    The biggish nights w/ drinking can have an impact. If your calorie are in check not a concern for the long haul, but it can mean additional mass in your body til the food processes out.

    Things you can do:
    Improve your logging accuracy. Try to have fewer 'biggish' nights. Take more control over dinner - if you're not cooking, do you have true knowledge of the ingredients/quantities that are going into the meals?

    Easy fixes ;)
  • Cammy_girl
    Cammy_girl Posts: 115 Member
    edited March 2017
    Thanks all for suggestions. Things like pizzas etc I know are not entirely accurate, but I log extra pieces to try to compensate hahaha.
    Dinner wise, fairly confident in ingredients used, as I do the shopping and know how much b if this and that is available, but try to log a bit extra as a buffer.

    Drinking nights I don't eat out/have dinner beforehand, and log reasonably accurate the day after, although this still could be improved. Not planning on many more events like this, have been traveling for a year so have had a few catch ups recently.

    I will keep plodding along and improve dinner accuracy and reassess in a couple of weeks
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